Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Let Reader Madeira be more chary with his awards for valor. The Phoenix papers front-paged the story of Franciscan McLoughlin, A.P. and U.P. carried it on the wires...
...official who should know, if any outsider does, which Russian leaders are friendly to the Western powers is U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Walter Bedell Smith. This week, after "Beedle" Smith had visited the White House and asked President Truman to let him retire (he has ulcers), he said to reporters...
...shared the Navy's mortal fear of unification, joined the admirals in insisting on restriction of the Defense Secretary's authority. After 17 months as Defense Secretary, Jim Forrestal saw it all in a clearer light. He asked Congress to kick out the word "general" and let him really...
...Well,' said the FBI man, 'we can't let you in. You're a Red. Only Reds talk about peace . . . You're a Moscow agent because you have a beard...
...when his Northwest commander, Chang Chih-chung, had counseled another effort to negotiate? When the commander of the armies defending Nanking, sturdy Pai Chung-hsi, had wired him to step aside? Even his sworn brother, ex-Premier Chang Chun, had urged him to "retire into the clouds" and let others less disagreeable to the enemy make overtures for peace. Vice President Li Tsung-jen was ready to propose a cease-fire and immediate peace talks...